Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 12, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september As Odim told to ship hardest cases out Superior aimed to save surgeon says by Alexandra nut medical reporter a senior surgeon at the health sciences Centre asked the doctor in charge of open heart surgery on children to ship out the hardest an inquest heard Jonah Odim testified at an inquest into the deaths of 12 children after open heart surgery in 1994 that by midyear his immediate super i Helmut suggested that the pro Gram be slowed obviously the controversy had already erupted and he was coming up with suggestions of Why hot just do the simple cases and Send the rest Odim told associate chief provincial court judge Murray Odim said he assumed then acting head of cardio thoracic was trying to find ways to save the surgery program from critics within the my Only comment to him was paediatric cardiac surgery is not simple you have All sorts of things that can you Are either operating and doing cases or youre not doing you can not run a paediatric car Diac surgery program and do just closed or Sim ple Odim said on his sixth Day of the program was ultimately scaled Back to simple cases for four months starting May 17 after anaesthetists refused to work with Odim on Complex cases of open heart surgery on the anaesthetists action was Odim i was surprised and he i didst know anaesthetists were going to withdraw under questioning from Crown attorney Christina he testified that he was unaware of the concerns of surgical nurses Many of whom delivered harsh criticisms in their testimony at the now in its 18th Odim said he dismissed a growing sense of hostility in the operating room As personality Dif he testified it was True that he told head operating room nurse Carol Youngson that he used a saw instead of scissors to Cut open babies chests because it made him feel like a but he want he it was a joke at the everybody sort of lots of surgeons open babies chests with a saw Odim he told the court he failed to f eco Nice Young sons underlying i didst really know she was lots of surgeons open babies chests with a she asked me and so i dismissed it and i said it makes me feel like a i did not recognize this was a serious the first he heard of the anaesthetists action was May when the head of childrens then Agnes phoned him to ask what was going on when the anaesthetists sent her a copy of the i was on the hot it was my Surgi Cal program that was being closed and stopped and i was the focus of Odim he said he talked repeat edly to his immediate super including Unruh and then head of Bob about con Cerns he had about How the Hospital organized its Surgi Cal Odim testified that Unruh of you Are not the Only this is nothing Odim said he was told other including previous paediatric cardiac had Sim Ilar problems getting a regular operating room getting members of the surgical team together for meetings and designating a Leader from one of the four anaesthetists on the team to discuss concerns about Odim testified he discussed the animosity in the operating room with his assistant i put my Finger on it or Why it because nobody was really talking to Odim there seemed to be a silent a hostility when certain members of the team were in the the anaesthetists staged the withdrawal after the first five which represented a mortal Ity rate of 50 per the court heard the team had done 11 operations on Only 10 patients Between the time Odim arrived to head the program in March 1994 and the time the Anes theists issued their memo in dims testimony is expected to last Well into Tim free press officer checks Cruiser after it was blasted while parked on College police cruisers blasted officers worried after shooter fires Shotgun at cars y tin Nipes police Are still Hunting for the mystery shooter who blasted holes into the Side of two police Carl Shier said police believe the two shootings at opposite ends of the City were the work of one it is a concern to police 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